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How to Ship a QFN Chip to Everyone
We are basically sharing pins. We have a multiplexer where there is a simple controller that lets you choose which design is currently active. And then your design gets access to, I think right now we have 8 plus 10. So that's 26 IOPins or that's 10 inputs, 8 outputs and 8 bi-directional pins. You can do whatever you want with them as long as it's digital. But I learned that iterating on silicon is really slow. Like it takes months, if not years to get our designs made. It also means that we can't add features as fast as we want because we also need toIterate on the features that we are adding to